Uprisings: Symptoms and Potentials in the Thought of Michel Foucault and Georges Didi-Huberman

Abstract

The following article aims to analyze the notion of uprisings, especially in the thought of Michel Foucault and Georges Didi-Huberman. Therefore, we propose that the notion of uprisings can open multiple ways of imagining other stories and narratives; a potential capable of putting any regime of order in check. A question that deals with its impetuous internal dynamis, with the acceleration and radicalization of social protests and with the overflow of its immanence. This symptom not only responds to the lack of legitimacy of authoritarian political regimes, but is a power that radically challenges the entire political class as a whole. There is a polyvalence of meanings in the uprisings; cultural performances, new audiovisual montages, political propaganda and democratic proposals, among others, that allow us to think about another relationship with the desires and policies of the body